Global Top Ten "cloud" enterprises

According to foreign media reports, with the advent of the mobile internet and cloud computing era, the increasingly popular cloud computing is an important opportunity for many IT companies. "Cloud services" has become a well-known word, if you do not know the difference between PAAs, IaaS and SaaS, then nothing, because many people do not know.

Any company that uses internet-based methods for computing, storage, and development can be technically called a cloud company. Each cloud company has a unique history of cloud technology. The following will be introduced to the 10 companies as the "cloud" field of the forces and pioneers, for the cloud services business Development made an outstanding contribution, in this "cloud" revolution played an important role.

1. Amazon-Everywhere

Amazon can be said to be ubiquitous, its products are widely involved, both software and hardware. One of Amazon's products is the flexible Computing Cloud (EC2), a system that allows users to hire cloud computers to run their applications. By providing Web services, EC2 allows users to run their own Amazon machine image files flexibly, running any software or applications they want on the virtual machine. And over time, Amazon is clearly not satisfied with this achievement, it has launched a variety of cloud storage products, and formally entered the PAAs market, in the music service sector also to the Apple and Google launched a challenge.

2. Google-"cloud" is the basis of everything

Google, like Amazon, is not a traditional it vendor, but a new network company. Like Amazon, Google is never afraid of new markets, and it has been successful in many emerging markets with its Android operating system, Chrome browser and chrome tablet products. Google said that their basic business philosophy is "All applications are hidden in the cloud," Google's Gmail, Google Docs, Google spreadsheets and other cloud products directly to Microsoft's desktop products launched a challenge. In addition, the insatiable Google has also opened the door to the PAAs market through Google App Engine (Google application engine).

3. Microsoft-Strength decides everything

It is a bit late for Microsoft to join the cloud market, but never ignore the strength of the business giant. Many experts say Microsoft is the most ambitious and powerful company to develop cloud computing, thanks to Microsoft's accumulated assets: state-of-the-Art data centers, Hyper-V virtualization products, Windows Azure cloud Computing operating system, Windows Azure Controller, SharePoint Online, Office 365, CRM on-line, Bing search engine, ie browser, and net development platform. Microsoft's Outlook, Windows, and office account for 90% of the world's usage, and if Microsoft pulls these customers into its cloud business, it's pretty impressive.

4. VMware not just virtualization technology

VMware has morphed from a single product to an ambitious cloud vendor with vsphere virtualization technology. VMware has become a strong member of the PAAs market through a series of acquisitions, and its main products, in addition to Vfabric, have an open PAAs platform Cloudfoundry.

5. Salesforce.com-saas and other

Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) software service provider that provides on-demand customer relationship management. The company outlines a cloud strategy that includes SaaS and PAAs. The company's cloud computing offerings include force.com (custom software development), Heroku (Ruby Platform service), database.com, Salesforce data.com, Salesforce chatter, Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud. Marc Benioff, Salesforce's chief executive, had proudly announced that Salesforce.com was the first cloud company to earn more than $2.3 billion trillion a year, and that it was expected to reach $3 billion trillion in 2012 years.

6. Rackspace-openstack

Rackspace is one of the world's three cloud computing centers and is a leading global hosting provider with more than 10 data centers and more than 64000 servers worldwide. OpenStack, a cloud-computing project launched by Rackspace and NASA last year, aims to develop a set of open-source software standards that allow users to build their own flexible cloud computing environments. This year Rackspace also announced its intention to start a foundation in 2012 to fully take over the past, thus giving the opportunity to create a truly open source cloud computing project that OpenStack the industry's concerns about the OpenStack platform being rackspace tightly controlled.

7. verizon-Active Acquisition

A short time ago, Verizon, the US telecoms operator, bought a cloud computing service provider, Terremark CSM Inc., for Terremark, and acquired Terremark to enable customers to access a variety of devices including music, personal data, Enterprise data and other information, enterprises can also store data in the cloud computing environment.

8. Cisco-webex and UCS

Cisco, the giant of the corporate network market, is not the same as its cloud strategy, and is actively pursuing several different ways of business revenue, and Cisco's goal is to become a cloud builder, including public and private clouds.

WebEx, as a Cisco subsidiary, creates on-demand software solutions for companies of all sizes. It was WebEx that helped Cisco become the backbone of the SaaS market. The launch of Cisco's unified Computing system, which UCS the cost of building data centers, has made Cisco an important player in the data Center building, UCS is a framework that connects all the data center resources, eliminating the boundaries of computing, network, storage access, and virtualization, and manage it as a single system.

9. T Corporation: Joint strategy

T company has all the prerequisites for building a strong cloud service: Data centers, long-term partnerships with corporate customers, a country's most advanced global network, management services and hosting experience. T provides IaaS storage-services and PAAs products for business people. In addition, T is trying to use its vast mobile phone user base to promote cloud services.

Citrix

Citrix's core business is the Desktop virtualization Solution VDI, which plays a leading role in and in the open source "cloud" campaign. Citrix is an early and enthusiastic supporter of Rackspace's OpenStack project. This June, Citrix launched the Olympus Project, a product designed to bring OpenStack software to a large cloud provider to a single company The July Citrix acquisition of Cloud.com,cloud.com Software can help companies move computing tasks to large data centers, through which Citrix will focus on private cloud technology to help businesses run cloud computing services on their servers.

And all of this has been applied to Cloudstack 3, the open multi-virtual machine management platform launched by Citrix, Cloudstack 3 supports all applications on the market, such as Hyper-V, KVM, OVM, vsphere, and Xen.